Week of May 1-5

Monday:

We finished our 7th book in religion today! We read the story of Zacchaeus.  We learned how Jesus comes to seek and save the lost.

We wrote the last part of the apostles creed today too!

In math we practiced putting 3 digit numbers in order greatest to least and least to greatest.  We also did more comparing of numbers.

We learned another special vowel sound in phonics.  We learned that oi and oy make the oi sound like oil.  We brainstormed some oi and oy words.

Tuesday:
We finished saying the Apostle's Creed today.  Friday the students will say the WHOLE THING if they have not already.

We played change the word today in phonics!  The teams tied!!  Great Job!

We did 3 digit addition today.  We regrouped just the ones as tens today.

In reading we practiced the dge and ge endings that make the /j/ sound.  We also worked with the vocabulary words from our story and put them in ABC order.

We wrote a poem about May for handwriting.

We met with the 1st graders for the last time to practice our song that we sing THIS SUNDAY!

In science we learned about the changes we see in weather.  We learned about different kinds of weather and storms.

During Grammar we worked on adjectives.

Wednesday: DECADE DAY!

In honor of our 150th school year the children got to wear clothing from any of the decades the school was in session.  We had children from many different decades!  It was super cute to see everyone!

We had a special chapel celebrating our school led by Mrs. Finkel, who also went to this school when she was younger!

In  math we practiced 3 digit addition where we regroup in the ones and the tens.

We had extra gym today so we went from computer to gym!

We watched The Magic School Bus for science about weather.

We ended when we rewrote our chapter when our Stanley or Stacey came to school with us!

Thursday:
 We got a new book in Religion.  We read about Palm Sunday.  Even though we already celebrated it, we now get to read more about it and how it began Holy Week.

Then we got into small groups and got different slips of papers with the words of the Apostle's Creed on it.  The groups had to put the Apostle's Creed in order to help them practice.  It was a fun team work activity!

We did more 3 digit addition today in math.  The children are doing a great job with regrouping twice!

During reading we talked about reality vs fantasy.

We began Ch 9 in science.  We are talking about Day and Night.  We did an experiment where the children held a globe and a flashlight to show how its sunny on one side of the earth and dark on the other.

We worked on more adjectives.  This time, we talked about how adjectives can tell how many.

We switched with Mrs. O'Meara for weekly reader and music. In music we got out the instruments and used them to represent different parts of our Loose Tooth song.  In weekly reader they learned about Recycling.

Friday:A: Animals and B: Bubbles Day

The children had to say the WHOLE APOSTLES CREED today.  It was tough but we got through it!

In math we continued to practice our 3 digit addition.  The children are really understanding how to do this very well!

The children all wrote to me in their journals today.  I wrote back to them during my break!  I cannot believe I will only write to them 1 more time this year!

Today was the teacher appreciation luncheon.  Mrs. Carper came in in the afternoon while I was out at the lunch.

After the children watched VeggieTails.

Then the children had ANOTHER indoor recess.  I wish this rain would just stop!!

We ended playing some of favorite games!